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HORSE POWER. I No. 397,219. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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HORSE POWER. No. 397,219.

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DANIEL BERLE W, 0F SPRINGFIELD, ()lllO.

HORSE-POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,219, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed February 13, 1888. Serial No. 263,918. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL BERLEw, acitizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in l'lorse-Powers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of horsepowers operated by means of levers. In the usual way of constructing this class of horsepowers a large master-wheel is employed, which is especially heavy when it is intended to stand the strain of eight, ten, or twelve horses. As a consequence these powers are objectionable. on account of their great weight, which renders them cumbersome to handle when it is desired to move them; also, a further objection to the usual powers of this class, made in the usual way, is that they re qui re unnecessarily heavy draft on the horses to operate them, while on the plan of my improvement not over one-third of material is required in the construction of a power that will stand the strain and accomplish greater work in proportion to the horses used than any power constructed on the usual plan of using the large master-wheel. As a further advantage in my improvement the manufacturer needs but one complete set of patterns to be able to manufacture from the smallest to the largest powers by simply-adding duplicate parts which give the necessary or required strength in a power intended to do any certain work. This I accomplish in my improvement by applying the counter motion of a wheel in getting up the necessary speed in such a manner as to make the draft light on the horses. This wheel is mounted on the hub of the master-wheel and is pro vided with two sets of cogs o11e external and one internal. The external cog part of this wheel a duplicate of the cog part of the masterwheel. The dupl icatc cog parts of both the double-toothed wheel and the master wheel mesh with pinions located between them, which pinions in their iuovement,when

power is applied to the 1m1ster\\'heel,give a counter movement to the double-toothed wheel, and as the pinions which mesh with the internal cog part of said wheel have their bearings in a frame rigidly attached to the vertically-extended hub of the master-wheel, they are carried in a planetary movement in the same direction with the forward movement of the master-wheel, which gives said pinions two circuits round the internal cog part of the double-toothed wheel at each round of the master-wheel. These pinions have mounted at the top end of their shafts cog-wheels which mesh with a center pinion mounted at the top end of a central vertical shaft, which transmits the power to the tumbling-shaft by means of a bevel cog-wheel attached to the lower end of said central shaft. This power can be made to be driven by either one of two ways either by making the lever or sweep attachment to attach 011 the vertically-extended hub of the master-wheel, or by fitting the attachment on the doubletoothed wheel and driving from that point in stead of the one shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings which accompany this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of the master-wheel, showing its position. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on lines 3 4.

In Fig. 1, A is the wooden frame. B is the platform, to which the circular plate G is secured by bolts 01. Plate C at'm supports studs 3 on which pinions J are mounted. N is the master-wheel, mounted on a center hollow post, 0, which is secured to platform B by bolts are. F is the wheel with two sets of cogsone internal and one external set-and is mounted on the vertically-extended hub of the masterwheel N. T T are cog-pinions meshing with the internal cogs of the doubletoothed wheel F. E is the lever-frame, and is attached rigidly to the top of the verticallyextended hub of the master-wheel Nby means of boltsff, located in the joint between the frame and the extended hub. Openings are provided for bolts ff .in castinghalf in the hub and half in the frame which bolts secure the frame rigidly to the extended hub of the master-wheel N. M shows a lever in position with the rear end fitted in a pocket at P. The lever is supported in position by a stirruprest. (Shown by dotted lines at Fig. 2.)

d a on frame E are circular projections forming oil-cups around shafts t t. The opening in frame E at 1* forms an oil-chamber for oiling the central parts of the machine. K K are cog-wheels mounted on the top end of shafts t I, and mesh with the pinion V. Pinion Y is mounted on the top end of the central vertical shaft, ll. if is a bevel-wheel attached to the lower end of the shaft 1:1, and meshes with the pinion Q on the tumblingrod attachment 1'.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s 1. In a horse-power, the wheel 1*, provided with an internal and an external set of teeth, in combination with 111asterWheel N, having" a vertically-extended hub, pinions T J K V, and gear U, substantially as described.

A central vertical shaft and a hollow post thereon, in combination with the lever-frame,

' a snpporting-platfor1n, a wheel which is inter- DANIEL BERLEXV.

Attest:

F. \V. WILLIss, AMos N. MILLER. 

